Courses Summer 2014

Our courses summer 2014 are based on the licentiate curriculum of the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Rome, taught in English in London in summer and accredited by KU Leuven in Belgium. The following links provide the full course listings at KU Leuven for the:

Block 1: 7 – 18 July 2014

This introductory seminar aims to equip students with a method with which they can conduct their own graduate research in liturgy with skills in three areas:
1) gathering the essential body of information,
2) interpreting a liturgical event and
3) developing a coherent presentation.
Each student will research and present the history and theology of an agreed upon collect type prayer.

Location: Benedictine Study and Arts Centre, Ealing, London

Dates: 7-11 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July are free days)
14 – 18 July (Monday to Saturday)

The course aims to provide insight into the origin and development of the liturgy in the West up to the present day, reflecting the different cultural periods of society and how these shape the liturgy of the Catholic Church. It examines both the historical and liturgical record and the recent debates among Catholic liturgists concerning the past and future development of the Roman Catholic liturgy. The course will proceed by means of a chronological study of the major periods of the liturgy of the Christian Church in the West.

Location: Benedictine Study and Arts Centre, Ealing, London

Dates: 7-11 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July are free days)
14 – 18 July (Monday to Saturday)

At the end of the course the students will be able to:
♦ Describe a number of examples of growing divisions in the christian community in history with the associated liturgical discontinuities and continuities;
♦ Describe a number of efforts at promoting the reconciliation of christian communities in the official documents of the Catholic church and of another church;
♦ Analyse specific examples of bilateral and multilateral conversations and ecumenical projects such as BEM, ARCIC;
♦ Evaluate ecumenical collaboration today in a particular country or between two churches;
♦ Explain the role of the liturgy in promoting the reconciliation of separated christian communities.

Location: Benedictine Study and Arts Centre, Ealing, London

Dates: 7-11 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 July are free days)
14 – 18 July (Monday to Saturday)

Block 2: 21 July – 1 August 2014

At the end of the course each participant will be prepared to:
♦ name and describe the characteristics and historical evolution of the principle liturgical books of the West, especially: the sacramentaries, lectionaries, and missals; the ordines, pontificals and rituals; breviaries;
♦ describe the content, historical context and contribution to the developing tradition of the primary books;
♦ use each book’s critical apparatus along with other research instruments;
♦ present one’s own research into these liturgical books.

Location: Benedictine Study and Arts Centre, Ealing, London

Dates: 21 – 25 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July are free days)
28 July – 1 August (Monday to Friday)

Students
♦ familiarize themselves with the emergence of theology of the liturgy in the course of the 20th century;
♦ understand the content of A. Schmemann’s, A. Kavanagh’s and D.W. Fagerberg’s approach to theology of the liturgy;
♦ can explain the meaning of the adage lex orandi, lex credendi as well as the reasons why it is both important and controversial;
♦ develop a personal and critical standpoint towards the particularity of theology of the liturgy as it is interpreted by Schmemann, Kavanagh, and Fagerberg;
♦ can apply the insights of theology of the liturgy to methodological issues and to questions of a more systematic-theological nature.

Location: Benedictine Study and Arts Centre, Ealing, London

Dates: 21 – 25 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July are free days)
28 July – 1 August (Monday to Friday)

At the end of the course each participant will be prepared to:♦ Describe the origin of christian initiation in New Testament and Jewish prayer;♦ Present the development of the structure of christian initiation in the first ten centuries;♦ Trace the developments in the Middle Ages and Catholic Reformation up to 1962;♦ Detail renewal of christian initiation as mandated by the Second Vatican Council;♦ Understand the contemporary rites of initiation of the Roman Rite.

Location: Benedictine Study and Arts Centre, Ealing, London

Dates: 21 – 25 July (Monday to Friday; Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July are free days)
28 July – 1 August (Monday to Friday)

Students will begin to understand the meaning and usages of the subjunctive mode mostly in reading and also in writing the Latin language. Presumed is a knowledge of the verb in all times of the indicative. This course is intended to prepare the student for the entrance requirement into the IL certificate programme of studies in Liturgy and for the entrance exam in Latin for the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy, Rome, and for the credited course Proficient Latin for Liturgists L711. As such, this course is not accredited.

Students will encounter Latin liturgical texts and Latin authors writing on the liturgy from many ages. They will proceed to a greater facility and ease with the Latin language and come to a more detailed and direct understanding of liturgical texts. They will develop a fuller expression of liturgical ideas accurately and beautifully in both Latin and English. Specific elements of the language considered include the four participles and infinitives, sentences in the ‘accusative with the infinitive’ and purpose and result clauses. Our review includes the sequence of tenses. Our method is that developed by Fr Reginald Foster, OCD, retired papal Latinist of forty years.

This seminar considers the history and development of Christian Initiation. Students will examine a selection of texts and trace their origin and development through history, examine how they have been proclaimed and interpreted up to the present. Students are helped to learn from each other by seminar presentations and to edit their own work in the light of others’ presentations. In this way students refine their research skills and prepare a seminar paper which may later be developed into a Master’s thesis.